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Tempo’s Project SAGE automatically creates worklogs for your engineering teams with minimal effort from engineers. Project SAGE uses time spent in Jira, calendar events, and activities performed in connected work tools to create worklogs.
Your engineering teams are asked to provide feedback to help improve the time predictions. They are asked simple questions to verify the issues they worked on and the time they spent on those issues. As the predictions improve, they are prompted less frequently.
For product and engineering managers, this means fast access to valuable time data that provides visibility into project or portfolio health and informs pivot/persist decisions.
What is Project SAGE
Project SAGE is an innovative method of tracking time with the end goal of no-effort time tracking by using work signals your engineers are already doing in Jira and other tools. It is intended to reduce the time employees spend tracking their time and the effort it takes to ensure they’re tracking the right things.
With Project SAGE, worklogs are automatically created for team members. They are prompted every few days to review the worklogs to ensure the worklogs are accurate in both duration and attributed Jira issues. As time progresses, the worklogs are more accurate, and team members are prompted to review their worklogs less frequently.
If your teams submit timesheets for approval, the process works as usual in Timesheets.
How Does Project SAGE Work?
Project SAGE ingests data from Jira and integration apps connected to teams' calendars and other tools, such as GitHub. Using signals such as commit messages and Jira issue IDs, it predicts the time team members spend working on specific issues, even if the time is distributed between Jira, GitHub, and their calendars. It then creates a worklog associated with the Jira issue ID and uses the time spent in a day that is associated with both the issue and the team member.
To validate that the correct worklog was created, team members are prompted to review their worklogs. They can add, delete, or edit worklogs as needed. As time passes, your team members should interact less with Timesheets because Project SAGE is predicting their worklogs correctly.
Is Project SAGE Right for My Teams?
Project SAGE is not suitable for every team. As most work signals are through Jira and other developer tools, Project SAGE works well for development teams or internal IT organizations.
We don’t recommend using Project SAGE for teams that track billable hours, CapEx, or teams that require a high degree of time tracking accuracy. While worklogs created by Project SAGE can be accurate within 15 minutes, most worklogs are estimated to the nearest half hour.
What Happens to My Data?
Data about what your team members do and how long it takes them to do it is saved to create more accurate worklogs. Your code base is not saved. Project SAGE reads event titles, commit messages, Jira descriptions, and Jira issue IDs.
Tempo Software is not interested in your proprietary data; we are only interested in data that helps us create more accurate worklogs for you.
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Next Steps
If you want to try Project SAGE, sign up for Tempo’s EAP. This program is separate from TempoLabs and requires closer interactions with Tempo staff.
If you’re already enrolled in the EAP for Project SAGE, you can either:
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Enable Project SAGE
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Set up for Project SAGE